Emails show Kathy Ruemmler had close ties to convicted sexual abuser she called ‘Uncle Jeffrey’ Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer, Kathy Ruemmler, has announced her resignation after emails in the latest tranche of Epstein files revealed she had a close relationship with the convicted child sex offender, whom she called “Uncle Jeffrey”. Ruemmler said on Thursday she would step down as the bank’s chief legal officer and general counsel at the end of June. “I made the determination that the media attention on me, relating to my prior work as a defence attorney, was becoming a distraction,” she told the Financial Times, which first reported her departure. Her resignation marks a U-turn for the bank’s top lawyer, after she initially insisted she would not resign from the job she has held since 2020. Ruemmler called Jeffrey Epstein a “monster” in recent statements, with a Goldman Sachs spokesperson previously stressing that she